How Reasonable Americans Could Support Trump

Helping Liberals Understand the MAGAverse, and Whatever Comes Next

By: Brian Rees

Narrated by: Brian Rees

We are a deeply divided country.

If you’re a never-Trumper, maybe you’d like to understand better your Trump-supporting relative at Thanksgiving dinner. Over 74 million of your fellow Americans voted for Trump in 2020. Despite all the things about him that make you crazy, they decided, "that’s my guy", and filled in the dot or pulled the lever. Why did they? How could they? Is there any way to bridge the gap between you and them?

And if you’re a Trump supporter, you might be tired of having “friends” beat you up by calling you a racist idiot; you could give them this book to help explain that there’s more to the story. You might even begin to understand better what it was about Trump that you liked, and that some of those things may even be of interest to your liberal friends and relatives.

Folks. we’re stuck with each other. We will continue to live together on this continent. Nobody’s moving to Antarctica.

Instead of fighting each other, we will all be better off if we can understand, and perhaps even appreciate, each other. It’s worth listening to a book if it can help us re-create a United States where we hear and value our countrymen.

This book has three parts. First, we’ll explore our own natures, attributes with which we’re born that inform much of our moral and political perspective, how those are channeled, and how they affect how we feel about Trump. We’ll see why a lot of what we try to do to influence others is doomed to fail. The second deals with how the things Trump said and did have resonated so robustly with his supporters. Even if you’re a never-Trumper you may see Trumpism in a different light. The third addresses what we can do, to improve ourselves, to enhance our relationships with friends and relatives with different views, and even to impact our nation’s political life.

If this book can give someone pause before jumping to the conclusion that people with differing political views must be traitors who hate America, I’ll have hit my target.

©2021 Brian Rees (P)2022 Brian Rees

Overall thoughts

Although the author discusses very relevant and current topics facing both political parties (thank you). He tends to personalize and at times wander in discussing these topics never really addressing concretely why people could support trump. In the end he mentions throughout the book he was critical about the party of Lincoln which was very apparent. I believe there is much criticism to be given to both parties and the media is not fair and balance even though the author made it clear in does not see it that way with CNN, With that said, I think the book should be titled - Why Reasonable People Should Not Support Trump or the Republican Party.

There is much wrong with our political system on both sides, and we cannot be blinded by the fact that one is better than the other.

Again there were many good topics discussed, unfortunately they were targeting at one party.

What's the point?

Six hours in and still waiting for the author to get to the point. He often uses quotations, apparently to validate a his theories. Unfortunately, rather than establishing a quote's relevance he frequently states that it's "beyond the scope of this book." Perhaps the same could be said of the point of the book itself.

Delivers on the promise of its title

As someone that leans liberal, this book helped me see how the MAGA crowd thinks as well as why so many people voted Trump. Definitely recommend